Sycamore Community Band sets summer schedule

The Sycamore Community Band led by Pete Metzger will perform a series of free concerts throughout the greater Cincinnati area this summer.

The theme for this year is the Wide World of Music. The concerts will showcase many different musical genres; including symphonic, operatic, rock, Dixieland jazz, big band jazz, Broadway, movies, brass bands, patriotic, and classic marches by the masters - Patrick Gilmore, Henry Fillmore, James Hosay, and John Philip Sousa.

Featured works include a "Dixieland Jam" performed by the SCB Dixieland Band, Verdi's "Manzoni Requiem," "Portrait of Freedom" by former Cincinnati Pops assistant conductor-Steven Reineke, "Woody Herman in Concert" and a special Armed Forces Salute.

All the concerts are free and open to the public. Please bring chairs or a blanket. For more information. visit www.sycamoreband.org.

? July 20, noon, Bastille Day in Montgomery, Montgomery and Cooper roads.

Metzger formed the Sycamore Community Band in 1974 and built the group to a full concert band with sixty-five active adult musicians. The band plays a variety of music consisting of light classical selections, sounds from the Big Band Era, patriotic music, and marches. For more information, contact Paul Wallace at 513-697-0868.

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Sycamore Community Band sets summer schedule

The Sycamore Community Band led by Pete Metzger will perform a series of free concerts throughout the greater Cincinnati area this summer.